Helene Fleischer
Helene Fleischer (born Lätzsch ; born June 11, 1899 in Leumnitz near Gera ; † June 26, 1941 in Stadtroda ) was a German communist politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism .
Life
Helene Fleischer, the daughter of a worker and long-time socialist, was a textile worker and joined the SPD in 1919 ; In 1923 she switched to the KPD . She had been a member of the KPD sub-district management since 1924 and a member of the works council of the textile factory "Louis Hirsch" in Gera since 1926. In July and November 1932 she was elected to the German Reichstag .
Since 1933 she worked under the code name "Hilde" as an illegal instructor for her party in several Thuringian district areas. On January 13, 1934, the Gestapo arrested Fleischer in their Apolda apartment. Sentenced to three years imprisonment for " high treason " by the Jena Higher Regional Court on May 30, 1934, she was imprisoned in Graefentonna and Hohenleuben and in May 1937 transferred to the Moringen women's concentration camp . After her dismissal in 1938, Fleischer worked in the Gera-Greizer worsted yarn spinning mill. In February 1941 she was arrested again and in May 1941, after severe abuse, she was taken from Gera prison to the Stadtroda state hospital.
Fleischer, who had previously been diagnosed with "severe schizophrenia and pulmonary tuberculosis ", died there under unexplained circumstances on June 26, 1941 in the women's department headed by Rosemarie Albrecht . The suspicion is well founded that she was a victim of the National Socialist murders there.
Honors
- A memorial plaque was attached to the house of their Apolda hiding place during GDR times. The street that was named after her was renamed in 1990.
- In Gera, a street name and a memorial plaque (Helene-Fleischer-Straße 2) still commemorate the resistance fighter. A nursing home for the elderly ( Helene-Fleischer-Haus ) of the People's Solidarity bears her name. The 27th Polytechnic High School in Gera-Lusan was named after her until 1991 . A stumbling block was laid in front of her home in Gera-Leumnitz (Naulitzer Straße 9) in 2012 .
- Since 1992 one of the 96 memorial plaques for members of the Reichstag murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Fleischer in Berlin near the Reichstag .
literature
- Federal Agency for Civic Education (ed.): Memorials for the victims of National Socialism. Documentation II. ISBN 3-89331-391-5 .
- Thuringian Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists and Study Group of German Resistance 1933–1945 (Hrsg.): Heimatgeschichtlicher Wegweiser to places of resistance and persecution 1933–1945 , series: Heimatgeschichtliche Wegweiser , Volume 8: Thuringia . Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-88864-343-0 .
- Butcher, Helene . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 .
Web links
- Helene Fleischer in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Photography on the side of the Free State of Thuringia
- Katrin Zeiss: "Yesterday in Today" , the daily newspaper , January 27, 2001.
- Infobüro Gera: "Zeithistorische Circumstances" , on Indymedia , 7 July 2003.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 216.
- ↑ Katrin Zeiss: "The Yesterday in Today" , the daily newspaper , January 27, 2001.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butcher, Helene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lätzsch, Helene (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leumnitz near Gera |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1941 |
| Place of death | Stadtroda |